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~~ If you’re looking for the 2018 Healthy Living Bundle, you’re in the WRONG PLACE (this review is for the 2017 version).~~

For the past couple years, I’ve reviewed several of the Ultimate Bundles(see here for my list of other bundle reviews), the two biggest each year being the Homemaking bundle in the spring and the Healthy Living bundle in the fall. However, this time around – and since I pride myself on being extremely honest in this blog – I decided not write a 2017 Healthy Living bundle review. Because I decided not to buy it.

I wasn’t interested in the Bonuses. Typically, the Bonuses are the part that convince me to buy a bundle. Previous year’s Healthy Living bundles were more enticing to me. The only bonus in the 2017 bundle that I found enticing was the one from Grove Collaborative. If you’ve never had a Grove membership, then the bundle could be worth it for the trial VIP program alone…but otherwise, eh. The bonuses did not impress me. See here for a post comparing Grove vs. Amazon.

There’s no “natural living” section. In the 2015 Healthy Living bundle, there was a section about taking care of the environment. One of the ebooks I skimmed through really impacted me and helped me to start making better choices in my life as far as waste and the ‘carbon footprint’ I’m leaving. I was bummed not to see any section in this years bundle about environmentally-friendly practices.

While I liked that there was a section for women w/resources on pregnancy and fertility, including quitting hormonal birth control – this is a bit too late for me, lol. I just finished having my (pretty sure it’s my) last child and no longer interested in maintaining my optimal fertility. I also no longer use hormonal birth control either.

The Gardening and Home Remedies sections should’ve interested me, but idk, they just didn’t. I like essential oils as much as the next person interested in home health care…but soooo much of this you can find on pinterest. For free. And easier than reading through an entire ebook or watching an ecourse. Speaking of, anyone interested in a list of essential oils to use in labor? Check our my FREE printable here.

A good third of the bundle is recipe books. Gluten-free, Paleo. Keto. Real Food. Do people actually read recipe ebooks? And pay for them? There’s so much you can found out there for free that the recipe ebooks seem feel like filler to increase the bundle price.

I bought this bundle due to someone I followed on Youtube pushing it (Mama Natural). The hugest selling point for me was the bonuses. I thought even if I didn’t use the ebooks maybe the bonuses and courses would work. Right? No. As I excitedly signed up, paid and looked at my FREE bonuses included and I realized nothing was free. The shipping costs tacked on was ridiculous. Even the Grove collab of free stuff required you to make a $20 minimum purchase. The smallest item I figured would have a low shipping cost was around $8! After seeing that, I was really burnt on the whole deal. I looked at all the ebooks and realized a lot of this info I didn’t really care for or I could easily Google. Some things I found interesting, i downloaded but I will most likely forget it’s on my computer. I contacted them and asked why they don’t mention the NOT FREE “bonuses” and was told they’d refund me if I wasn’t happy. When I told them I’d like a refund because I felt like I was being mislead I was told to delete everything I downloaded and “remove myself” from any courses. I found this to be rude. Am I crazy for thinking that? If you have a “100% happiness guaranteed or money back” policy why rudely ask me to delete everything and remove myself from courses? I dk. Maybe I’m being too sensitive about it but the response was shocking. Anyway, there’s my review. ha

First, I’m so sorry. I’ve been meaning to respond to your comment for a week now.

I agree that the language about the bonuses needs to be clearer. While some of the bonuses are free, you still have to pay shipping. However, I’ve found this to be somewhat standard. A LOT of companies will offer coupon codes for free product but still require you to pay shipping. That doesn’t really bother me. But I also don’t claim all the bonuses, only the ones that actually interest me enough.

I will stick up a bit for Grove Collaborative though. They’ve been included in the Healthy Living bundle for a few years now. The first year, like you I though it was ridiculous that we’d have to spend $20 before getting the “free” bonuses! But then the next time around I decided to try them out. I spent juuust barely $20 for the free shipping and bonuses to kick in. I ended up still being happy because it was like I’d spent $20 to get $50 worth of stuff. I do think that Grove Collaborative has its’ place and was the only bonus in this year’s bundle I really even liked.

The other bonuses were much better in previous years, imho.

As far as being rude about deleting the bundle from your computer, I can totally see how it may have come across like that. But truthfully, there’s no way they’ll be able to check if you really deleted everything from your computer. That’s kind of just on the honor system. But the way I see it is, if you buy something from a store and want to return it – you have to give the item back if you want your money back. So because the Ultimate Bundles team can’t actually “take back” a digital file, they are just trusting that you’ll do the next best thing and stop using the bundle’s contents.

Overall, I’m sorry you felt tricked into buying the bundle! That’s the main reason I never tell anyone to buy it unless they actually feel like there’s enough included to be worth it for them! I kind of dislike how the sales page is geared to make you feel like you NEED the bundle before going into depth about what the bundle actually contains.

Thanks for leaving a comment though and sharing your experience with the most recent Healthy Living bundle. I appreciate it!

I actually purchased the Healthy living bundle, due to your review, then upgraded and got the other 4 as well in the special they had a few weeks ago. The recipes are not useful, and neither most of the fitness one, but I found quite a few things in each category that I downloaded that made the cost worthwhile. Most of the bonuses are not useful for me.

The decluttering one had some great tips as well- and I am in the middle of a nice decluttering and organizing. I only had 1 garbage bag vs. 5 bags of items in great condition that are not really being used! And my closets were organized before this.

Thanks for your reviews.

I don’t think I’ll get another bundle, as it will take many months to read through everything I downloaded now!!

Thanks for weighing in with your review! I’m glad you feel like you got your money’s worth out of them. I too had considered getting all of the bundles in the bundle festival deal they had last month, but ended up not. I totally agree that there’s a ton of resources to go through for sure! 🙂

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